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r i in uf if B If IH miMiu p ft ATvH n DLRtf IIEIPIIU., JOB PRINTING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES NEATLY AND PROMPTLY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE On Reasonable Terms. All orion for job work or sdv.rtising. when sent by iull. will receive m Kompl attention as U partun raAdeiAkwtBeni not under contract uiMt be plainly marked theTengtb or time desired, or they will becon tlnned and charged for till ordered ont. aa t ' ' -a"! e 2 Eaton F. T. FOSTER, Publisher. VOL. IV. NO. 33. Devoted to the Interests Weekly Democrat. of the Democratic Party EATON, OHIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1871. and the Collection of Local and General News. Two Dollars per annum, in Advance. WHOLE NUMBER 208. "God Bless Church Around the Corner." BY ANNA MORRIS. ' The littlo church around the corner !" Why Like si , Why fall those wordj upon the ear un strains 01 genu? sowing mam That osir world-weary spirits che !f!r- Why is her fame of late o humble Now sounding forth with trumpet tone. Filling the Christian's heart with gladness Where'er his Master's name is known ? Because they seem a wand of magic. To bring urback to days of old. When Jesus to his lowly hearers His tales of heavenly bliss told. For now 'again, in priestly clothing. A Pharisee with scornful brow Think coldly of his fellow-sinner ' I am more noly far than thou 1" II a mm run with Pluruain horror A form that once, replete with lue, Had lad nightly pleased the eager thousands With scenes of mimic mirth and strife. thousands " An actor !" Ah 1 this world a stage is I And each and all must play their part 1 Man looketh at the outward seeming. Bat God alone can judge the heart ! And that cold form, on earth rejected. Shall wear a brighter crown shove Than he in priestly raiment vested. Who fails in Christian deeds of love. And many a soul now sorely tempted. With sense of sin and shame upprost. Shalt far above the coldly righteous With God's forgiving love he blest 1 Oh 1 would that all might learn the lesson. So fitly by the Saviour taught. When to his side the fallen woman By her accusers bold was brought. He cased on her with holy pity. Then on the captors one by one. And bade him without sin " among them To cast the first avenging stone 1" And soon alone, no man condemning. She stood her gracious Lord before : His pitying eyes once more He lifted. And bade her ' Go, and sin no morel" If thus the pure and holy Saviour Can look on sinful man with love. How dares the frail and erring mortal Thus set himself his Lord above T God bless the church around the corner t Still mav she stand a beacon there. To guide into her fold the wanderer Who needs the gentle Shepherd's care ! THE HAUNTED SHIP. From Scribner's Magazine. In the year 1853 I was first mate of the "H," a three-decked ship of about fifteen hundred tons burden, lying in Mobile Bay waiting for a cargo of cotton. Our sailors, twenty-four in number, were all colored men, pretty fair seamen generally, but, with four or five excep tions, wofully ignorant, and correspond ingly superstitious, w e nsvu ueeu in uis bay .between three and four months, so the spars and rigging Had tieen thorough lv overhauled and put to rights. 1 was sitting in the cabin one evening plan nirta outwork for the ensuing day, when my second mate, a rough old seaman of the packet school, requested on audi enoe. " Well, Mr. K., what is the matter now?" "The matter is, sir, that those darkeys forward there are getting so scared that unless we do something to or for them they won't be worth shucks; some of them ain't good for much. now. and there's no use in having the rest of 'em spoiled." " Bat what are they frightened at ? I have never heard anything of it before now." " No 1 they were afraid to say any thing to you about it; but for the last month they have a yarn about a head less ghost going around the decks at night, groaning at an awful rate. Some of em say it's a darkey without a head, and others say it's a white chap with a black face: but whatever it is, there they are, afraid to come on deck after dark or stand anchor-watch alone." "This is a strange piece of business. If there is a ghost aboard I should, think it would first .pay its respects to the quarter-deck. Do you think any of the rascals are playing trick ?" "No, sir! the knowirtgest ones is the most sacred. There's Bob and Jackson ought to know befer, but they both swear they saw it in the middle-watch last night; just told the third mate so." " "Well ! suppose we go and inquire into it." We went forward together, and came down so suddenly upon the sailors that they evidently thought two. ghosts had arrived instead of one. After the alarm and confusion had subsided, I told them what I had already heard, and asked for further information, which was readily furnished by a dozen eager vol unteers, who, now that their tongues were loosened by authority, seemed anxious to outrival each other in "their tale of horrors. It is needless to repeat their stories; but about half of them had seen the ghost in one of its forms, and all of them had repeatedly heard the groans. Bob and Jackson, my two best men, who were acting as boatswains, positively declared that they had seen it in the forecastle on the previous night, standing up against the bitt where I was then leaning. This bitt, a timber about a foot square, coming down through from the upper to the main deck, near the middle of the forecastle, was paint ed black up to within a foot of the deck, and the remainder of it lead color. On either side of it, in the spar-deck, was a bull's-eye to admit light, and there were several nails on which were hanging various articles of clothing. " You saw the ghost standing right here did you?" "Yes, sir! right where you are now, V Was the moon shining last night 1" j xes, sir i quite origin in unemirioie- ch r y" Did you speak to or try to catch the post?" No. kir 1 w.oi 1 rlvc't An mieh u. thine; fcr the world." If you had, you would have found that the ghost was nothing more less than this bitt. with the moon ining through the bull's-eves on it. and Vn the clothing you see hanging there , now. 1 never Knew ot a irhost. that lidn't dwindle into a moonbeam or a piece of linen." "here was a genera look of increduli- llnnn 4'., ..... 1 1, .i ,,! - r . . , i t.,.. . , . .... ,uu ...... , ...... ..in them mustered up courage to i.sk : . -dui now about the groans and noises, - V O. some .-f von etinea leMirl ami tho resVjis imagination." Kind i n tr that o.... ........ s . . - -W (- - "1(11117111, yi JU'lMlilMUll wereof no use in altering the opinions of nw crew, I left them, after giving the lollowi ng admonition : Sow. men ! in the first. i,i , i, io such things a phnta - :iii,i noi lly, I wish you to understand that re is no ghost aboard of this ship, I if you can't be made to understand h anv other wnv. I'll m'tre vnu tho fun of hunting all night For it. You know what I mean. Good-night P laving given the second mate his Bra for the following dv. I snt rl...-n to think the matter over, and " nsk mv- few ruinations." as the sailors khv. Uning AttfunMjnnmM now a m ...1 i. 1 t .1 1 1 ' ' I f 1 f -.v. Pi! I 111 III! II TIHl I come to me for permission to be trans ferrer! to other ships that were ready for sea, but this I had attributed to the characteristic restlessness of the class. My ship was considered a good one for sailors ; they were well fed and kindly used so long as they behaved them selves ; had plenty of work to do, so that there was no time for growling or fomenting discord. ' It was the ghost that made them anx ious to leave the ship. There was no fear of their running away ashore, be cause, in those days, if a colored man could not show his free papers in the South, he was presumably a slave, and held as such; but there Were many ships in the bay that were short-handed, and it was no uncommon thing for men to be spirited away from one ship to an other, when the latter was going to Bea early in the morning. Mates of ships were not very scrupurbtis about the manner of filling up their crews m those Says, as I well knew.- Haying, pondered over all of these things jfSjsftrVilly. and not seeing any presen"way Out of my troubles, I turned in, trustincjp. fortune for the future, t at fbtrmev4ite I resolved to keep an look-out whenever any ships weressWnt getting ready for sea. Things progressed as usual aboard of fhe ship for sevetal days, and I heard nothing more about the ghost ; bat my own time was comijur. One evening I had given my Htmn nlTii i i i permission to absent themselves from the ship, and was sitting bv mvself alone in the. cabin, awaiting their return. Being tired of my book, 1 sat dozing in a chair, When my reveries were disturbed by a sound like a half-smothered groan, that seemed to come from that forward part of the cabin on the starboard side. I was wide awake in an instant, though scarcely able to credit my senses. The groans were distant enongh, and were repeated in about the same interval that is required for a human breath ; still, my light did not burn blue, nor did the ghost appear. As I listened the sound came nearer, but seemed to rise up from the lower between-decks. I felt assured that the men, knowing my officers were absent, had arranged this plan to try my nerves. Without any further consideration, I slipped my shoes off, trimmed my dark lantern, armed myself with a good stick, and started in search of the ghast. Going to the main hatch, the only one open. I went down between decks, and, hauling the ladder after me, proceeded aft, where the noises : could be distinctly heard ; but before reaching the mizzen mast, they came, apparently, from be neath my feet. This was not pleasant, but my pride was aroused, and if there Was any trick in the matter, it would not do for me to. back out without dis covering it ; so I went back to the main hatch again, and down to. the lower deck ;. but this time I did not take the ladder away. Flashing the light ahead of me, I went carefully along, guarding against a surprise. This was needless. for, upon reaching the locality of the sounds, they were beneath my feet again, coming up from the lower hole. Matters were assuming an unpleasant aspect. I will not say that my hair stood on end, but certainly my feet stood still, while my confidence in the supernatural and myself began to be slightlv shaken. I hesitated, doubted. and finally concluding that it would be better to wait until my officers returned before pursuing the - investigation, beat a most inglorious retreat to' the cabin ; but there I could not rest, for now the sounds were apparently under the cabin floor, as if. they had followed me up from the lower hold. Suddenly 1 thought of the carpenter, a stalwart Dutchman, and hurrying to his room, roused him out. " Chips ! do you hear that noise ?" I !"Yes, sir; I pese hear him many times, and I shust puts mine head un ter mine planket and says noting.--." " Turn out now, and come down in the hold with me, and we will see what it is.' f Dunder unt Blitzen ! I shall nieht " fJome along, you tool, ' said i, impa tiently ; " you are no worse off there than here. I have been down between- decks alone, and now I want you along, so that if any of the men ore down in the hold we can cut them off." This view of the case seemed to reas sure him somewhat, and we soon found ourselves in the lower hold. Wending our way aft over the ballast the sounds constantly becoming more audible we finally reached the stern-post, and there, while the groans came mourn full from among the timbers of the stern frame, we stood still, no one visible but our selves. I do not know whether I was fright ened, but my heart never beat so fast before; and the poor Dutchman stood trembling as it struck with palsy, the droops of prespiration startling out like beads. My own nerves were somewhat shaken, but there was the pride of rank and station ; so, after listening to the unearthly sounds tor a tew minutes, we returned to the cabin together, for the carpenter would not turn in again until his room-mate came aboard. When my juniors returned we all went down into the hold and listened for some time to the sounds, which were apparently traveling along through the timbers. We could not satisfy ourselves regarding the cause, and finally retired, thinking that the poor darkeys might, after all. have had some foundation for their fears. We remained some three months lon ger in the Bay, and as no secret was made of these occurrences the old "H." received the name of " The Haunted Ship." Many a merry party we had in the cabin, and then would go down into the hold to listen to the unearthly wait ings of the tortured spirit who had chosen my ship for its abiding place. At length our own day of sailing came. Having but little wind in the morning, the steamboat Swan came to tow us out side of Mobile Point. While at my sta tion on the forecastle I heard Captain George aboard the Swan calling out for my harpoon, which was handed over to him, and in a few seconds there was a splashing in the water along side, a shouting a board the Swan, and then our ghost was lying on her forward guards ! Work was temporarily suspended, so that all hands might see what form the spirit had taken. There lay an immense Jew, or drum-fish, a well-known denizen of southern water, which recieves its name from the hollow, drum-like sound it makes when seeking for its food. This specimen was of unusual size, being nearly six feet long, and weighing over six hundred pounds. Having taken on board about two hundred pounds weight of his ghost-ship as an addition to our sea-stock of in-ovision, we tripped mir l ,r,,r,n r S:,i-' M1'1 W'e soon ou" tne 5ulf of Mexico, making the best of a our way toward the Gulf of St Lawrence, to take a cargo of deals for London. Notwithstanding the capture of the drum-fish, and the rational solution of the mystery, some of the crew were loath to abandon the delusion ; and un til the " H." was lost, two years after wards, she bore everywhere the ill name of "The Haunted Ship.' Terrible Indian Atrocities. Tucson, Arizona, Jan. 29, 1870. A terrible state of affairs exists throughout Arizona, in the face of all opposite representations. The Apaches are increasing their works of theft and murder. Within two weeks they have captured a train, killed one man, and wounded several others, between Phoenix and Wickenburg. Another train was attacked between Camp Mc Dowel 1 and Florence, and they stole 18 mules and killed George Kane lully Odwa'A Co.'s train was surprised thirty miles southeast of here, stock stolen, and. one man killed. The carriage on the- last down trip between Wickenburg and Bhcenix was attacked, and only es caped by the amazing exertions of the tlriver and team, wear louac Joe iving was shot- through the groin, and a num ber of horses taken. The farmers are fleeing hence for safety. The friendly Papagas have had many horses stolen by the Apaches. Sixteen mules were stolen near Florence, and 100 cattle at the same place. This state of war is similar in Central and Northern Ari zona, near Prescott. Representative men from all parts of tne territory are nere attending tne Legislature, and several mass meetings have been held to counsel what is best to do. In this critical period an order comes to transfer six companies of cavalry from Arizona to the undisturbed Washington Territory. Added to the Indian horrors is that of an apparent determination of the Mexican and other outlaws to plunder, poison and assassinate the citizens. Along the Gila road from Arizona city, 150 miles eastward, recently, Mexican bandits massacred Charles Reidt. James Lytle and Thomas Oliver, at Mission Camp, and sacked the station, stole six fine horses and escaped to Sonera, and have not yet been captured, though the Government offered $1,000 reward and the citizens $500 more. About the 24th inst., John Kilbride died .from the ef fects of poison, believed to have been administered at the instance of a Mexi can woman. On the 20th, half a dozen more men were poisoned, but survived, at Gila Bend, reasonably believed to have been the work of Thomas A. Jones, acting in concert with Mexican outlaws. Gov. Safford promptly offered a reward for the capture of Jones, and within twenty-four hours thereafter he was taken within thirty miles of the Mexican line, whither he was trying to flee for safety. The Governor also ad dressed a message to the Legislature re questing authority to place not to ex ceed twenty men in the field, in such emergencies, to pursue, capture, and re turn the desperadoes. With the active thieves, poisoners, murderers, hostile Apaches, and a wholly unprotected for eign border, nearly all our boldest citi zens who never are noted for temerity, are abandoning their farms and .sta tions, acknowledging, what they never have done before, that they are dis couraged. The delegates from Arizona and New Mexico should present a bill to Con gress for the protection of the southern border, and enlist the California and Texas Senators and Representatives in its behalf. The Mexican bandits avow their intention to clear the Gila settle ment of whites. a by to as of ed the m a How a Whole Family Became Blind. From the Cambridge (Mass.) Herald. There lives a family in Dorchester county, every dark-eyed member of which for the past fifty years has gone blind at the age of 20 to 25 years. Those with blue eyes escape the terrible affliction. There is a tradition about this singular circumstance, which we lay before our readers as we heard it : Some sixty years since-, so goes the story, a beautiful black-eyed girl of 20, from some cause or other, lost her eye sight. Her misfortune brought penury and want with it. Being reduced to beggary, she was wont to go about ask ing alms. During one of her journey -ings she visited the neighborhood in which resided the ancestors of those who are now sightless. Instead of her helpless condition exciting, as it should have done, a feeling of sympathy, she was treated with ridicule by some of the younger members of the house her evil star had led her into. Two of the boys, as a matter of mere deviltry, took her out, promising to conduct her to a plaee where plenty awaited. Instead of giv ing her a safe conduct, they carried her into a swamp and left her. It is said that she cried out, beseeching them to put her on the public road, but they heeded not her lamentations. Finding herself about to be deserted among tho tangled brushwood, she turned her irayer to a curse, asking her Maker, in ler revengeful anguish, to punish her betrayers, by making their offspring for seven generations as helpless as she was. It is said that she was found dead in the swamp, having perished from hunger and cold. This may appear somewhat romantic, but whether the traditionary part of it be false or true, it is assuredly fact that the male offspring of the family referred to lose their sight as in dicated. Hundreds of persons in Dor chester county will verify it. a to be for to an in air Marriaob or Miss Dr. Garrett. English social circles are almost as much interested in the approaching mar riage of Miss Elizabeth Garrett, M. D., as by that of the Marquis- of Lorno' and the Princess Louise. Miss Dr. Garrett is a very u strong-minded" woman. She was one of the seven la dies who fought their way through the Edinhcrrgh Medical School to gradua tion. She settled in London, and be came not only a skillful physician, but a prominent advocate of the ballot and woman's rights to it. At the first elec tion of a school board at which tho three great principles of the cumulative vote, woman suffrage and the ballot were first introduced in England, she was the most popular candidate in Lon don, but nearly four times as many as any other. The terms of the education act wilt 'compel her to give up, of her own accoiai, the practice of medicine. It is not to be supposed that, after her pleasant experince in voting and being voted- for,-she will long remain silent under the disfranchisement which her marriage will carry with it. Dr. McCosh gives to the theory of Darwin, a qualified approval. He says that it contains " a powerful denL of truth," but not the whole truth, jtad that many of his inferences are wrong. in hot-air air, for -this ot -liwt Economic Heating. From the Technologist for January. Just now there is no subject comes more appropriately to our minds than that in 'which so many thousands are concerned in these winter months ; namely, heating as large a space with as small a supply as possible. This is a problem in which the poor are not the only ones concerned ; it is us interesting that large class possessed of slender means as to the very needy ; for the po sition they have to maintain renders them as careful of their means as the very poorest should be. The great enemy of this unhappily large commu nity is the cold, and thismust be guarded against by all available means. Where cooking stove is in use, it can be made to heat two rooms on the same floor, by having an aperture in the partition, in which the back of the stove may be set, taking the precaution against accident by fire, of setting u frame of tin or zinc between the stove and the wood-work of the partition. A third room, over that in which is the cooking stove, might bet heated by a sheet iron dummy through which the stove-pipe might pass on its way to the chimney flue. And even a fourth room may be heated to some ex tent by passing the pipe through the partition, dividing the two upper rooms, before it discharges into the chimney. It is true that all this calls for many lengths of pipe, and it is comparatively costly ; but when compared with the amount of comfort thus conveyed, and regaiding the economizing of fuel at the same time, it is at least worthy ot con sideration. In a one-story cottage or tenement, wherein the floor is divided into four rooms by two partitions, intersecting each other at right angles, the best plan to adopt would be to have the cooking stove or the fire place, as the case may be, located at the point of intersection, having each side facing a room. If the fire-place be of brick, the back and two sides should have sheet iron plates inserted in them, and the fire-place itself, being in an angle of the room, would necessarily project into the other rooms, making angular heating places at each. Three rooms could be heated to some degree one cooking stove, without interfer ing with the oven or other fixings in the least, by having the front in the kitchen ranging with the partition wall, and having the body of the stove project back into the other room, having a suffi cient height of alcove over the griddles permit of the perfectly free opera, tions of the boiler, etc. This can be easily understood by supposing a cook stove completely inserted in a fire-place. kitchen ranges generally are. Here there is but .little stove-pipe required, and that which is used gives out heat to the room m which it is set at the back the cooking stove. To avoid the ex pense of chimney building in cheap cottages, a flue may be safely construct to rest on the ceiling joists by havaig the latter sufficiently strong to boar the weight. - It is well also to prop them up with two-inch planks placed upright,- one at each side ot the perpendicular line of the flue. The two upright planks, being set against the chimney back, could be readily made to form sides of a shelved closet or small pantry. It not unfrequently happens that stores are so situated as to present no opportunity for heating by stoves placed them, unless by marring the general appearance, or having to accept the in conveniences of a lengthy and uncouth looking stove-pipe, with its necessary suspenders of wire nailed up at inter vals. In such case heat may be intro duced from the cellar beneath, through register in the floor, or a cast-iron or namented pedestAl, appropriately pierced the purpose. The heat would be generated by a furnace in the cellar, having a hot-air chamber in connection with the floor of the store, by means of short pipe and a register ; the smoke be carried oft' through a stove-pipe, hung beneath the cellar ceiling, and discharged into the nearest chimney flue. A simple, ready and economical heater, to answer the required purpose, may be formed in the following manner: Under the point fixed upon for the loca tion of the register, in the store, place a large-sized sheet iron box stove. Around this build a hollow wall chamber, say treble the dimensions of the stove. This hollow wall may be made of two parallel walls laid up on edge, and bound at intervals with pieces of hoop iron. The inner wall might be com posed of tire brick the outer wall of common brick. The inter-space might two inches wide, and be packed with ground charcoal, a bed of which should likewise be laid on the floor of the hot air chamber, with a layer of sand over the stove to stand upon. The ob ject of this introduction of charcoal is prevent the escape of heat, it being a non-conductor. Plaster of Paris, or gypsum, would answer the same pur pose. The door of the stove should be taken off, and set in the brickwork in front, taking care that the opening be secure against any escape of fire into the hot-air chamber : in fact, placing the brickwork in close connection with the front of the stove. It is evident that the space surrounding the stove will, when the fire is going, become filled with hot air, which will rise through a large pipe to the register in the store. And lest any heat may be lost, it would be well to have a second pipe outside of this one, with a space of inch or so betweeii the two. thus re taining, without any loss, all the hot air its ascent to the store floor. A cold opening, having a stopper or slide, should be provided at the floor line of the hot-air chamber, and another for the draft of the stove itself. Any handy man could readily put up such a heating contrivance as this, which possesses all the principles so elaborately and scientifically carried out the various patent hot-air furnaces, etc., at a comparative trifling expense. Other rooms on a level with the store might also be so heated as to be com fortable from the same source; but this would call for a larger sizetl stove and chamber, as well as for an addi tion to the pipes conveying the heated not to speak of the necessary in crease of fuel to meet this extra demand heating. If manufacturers of jotteiy would turn their attention to the making of earthenware for hot-air furnaces, how much more healthy would they be than iron as a material for such purposes, and hew many houses of the lowly would be, furnished with this comfort, because it could be made to come within the means of the great majority. The pipes coultl be of glazed earthenware, and the stove of terra eotla. In fact, all stovts of rooms might be cheaplv constructed in latter, and present the advantage a lighter and pleasanter color, be sides retaining heat so much longer than iron. Should the misfortune of a A Rhinoceros and the Ice. Mr. Frank Buckland writes to Land Water an account of a strange ice acci dent to the rhinoceros at the Zoological Garden, London, recently. The animal had been turned out as usual into the paddock behind the elephant house while the dens were being cleaned. The snow had fallen thickly during the night, so that the pond was not to be distinguished from the ground. The rhinoceros not seeing the pond, pot her fore feet on the ice, which immedi ately gave way, and in she went head over heels with a crash. The keepers ran for Mr. Bartlett, the resident super intendant. When he came in a few minutes, he found the poor rhinoceros in great danger of drowning, as she was floundering about among great sheets of ice, under which she had probably been kept down till her great strength en abled her to break up the whole mass, Here, then, was a most awkward acci dent under unexpected and novel cir cumstances. Mr. Bartlett, with usual courage, quickness and readiness of re source, was quite equal to the occasion. He immediately let the water oft' the pond by knocking away a large plug which he has thoughtfully fixed instead of a tap, which is liable to get out of or der. In the meantime the poor rhinoc eros was in great danger of drowning, as the pond is nine feet deep ; so, while the water was running off, Mr. Bartlett, los ing no time, sent for all the available keepers and a long and strong rope ; bar row loads ot gravel were at the same time strewed on the sloping sides of the ponds to give the exhausted animal a foothold. The rope was tnen tossed round the haunches of the rhinoceros, like tho kicking strap of a horse in har ness, and twenty-six men, one-half at one end of the rope and the other half at the other, pulled hard on the rhinoc eros; so that in her struggles to get up the bank she would not only be support ted, but pulled forcibly forward. After much hauling on the part of the men and much plunging on the' slippery bank of the pond, the rhinoceros was at last landed on terra jirma. The salvors of this valuable living property had . then to look out for themselves. Mr. Bartlett had anticipated this, for he had left the sliding gate of the inclosure open just wide enough to let out one man at a time, but not a rhinoceros. An absurd scene then ensued : everybody rushed to the gate, but the first of the fugitives from the rhinoceros, naturally stout, and possibly stouter at Christmas time than usual, jammed fast in the gate, so that the other twentyfive men were in the paddock with the rhinoceros. The poor frightened and half-frozen beast luckily behaved very well; she did not rush after the men, but stood still, pricked her ears and snorted, giving the keepers time to get out as fast as they could, through the ingenious "man-hole," or guard, in the railing made in case of emergencies. Neither the rhinoceros nor the men received the slightest in jur'. Shortly after the accident Mr. Buckland saw the rhinoceros munching her breakfast as if nothing had hap pened. The rhinoceros was the big fe male; she is about ten feet six inches long, and about five feet high at the shoulders, and she weighs, at a guess, between three and four tons. The ice was four inches thick. A Prussian Officer's Experience of Captivity. A Prussian officer, who was captured before Paris early in December, and ex changed after three days' captivity, has given an account of his treatment and experience in a Berlin paper. It must, however, says the London Times, be -received with some caution. He was first taken before the commandant of St. Denis, Admiral la Rouciere, who pro vided him with an elegant civilian cos tume, invited him to a sumptuous din ner, placed a carriage and a commis sionaire at his disposal, and, on his pro mise not to quit Paris, allowed to go at large. He was afterwards presented to Gen. Schmitz, the head of Gen. Trochu's start", who received him very courteous ly and conducted him to Gen. Trochu, who also ottered him a capital dinner. In the course of conversation the Gen eral asked why the German start" gave no intimation of the commencement of the bombardment, to which the officer replied that, as a soldier, he was wont simply to obey orders, and did not know the intentions of his superiors. Gen. Trochu rejoined, rather excitedly, that he was anxious for the beginning of the bombardment, as the German guns could only bombard the quarters chiefly inhabited by the mob, who were the greatest incumbrance to him in his un dertakings. He should be glad in that way to lose a couple of hundred thou sand of these rauaille. He also stated that he was accurately acquainted with the hostile positions at all points, and was convinced that he could silence the German guns by the French batteries. He went into details as to the construc tion of the former, and expressed an opinion that their range was less than that of the French field artillery. The officer saw various herds of cattle round Paris, and in a restaurant where he breakfasted, and had beefsteak, vegeta bles anil wine for three francs, there was much activity, and vegetables were ottered on low terms in the markets. French Protest. Twelve opposition journals have protested against the de cree issued by the Bordeaux Govern ment, providing for the disqualification from the privilege of an election to the National Assembly of members of the families reigning over France since 1789, of all persons who have acted as Impe rial officials, candidates in past elections, or held office as Ministers, Senators or Councillors of State under the Empire, and Prefects who have accepted office between the 2d of December, 1851, and the 4th of September, 1870. A deputa tion from these waited upon Jules Simon, and stated to him verbally the grounds on which the protest is based. Simon, in his reply, declared that the decree issued by the Paris Government on the 28th of January abolished pll dis qualifications for the National Assem bly, and that he (Simon) would insist upon the execution of the Paris decree. It is said that the pecnliar otlor of commercial tannin may be entirely re moved, and thus better titter! for offi cinal administration, by first dissolving six parts in twelve parts of warm water, placed in a porcelain vessel, then pour ing the solution into a flask, after add ing from one half to one part of ether, and shaking it up thoroughly. The mix ture at first appeal's of a dirty green, and very turbid ; but it settles in a few hours, the coloring matter sinking to the bottom in the form of a flocculent coagulum. The liquid is then to be fil tered, and the filtrate evaporated. Tannin thus pre wired has no odor, and gives a perfectly clear solution with water. crack occur, it would be much easier to mend this earthenware work than to remedy the same in an iron stove ; and the chances of such an occurrence are as likely in the one material as in the other. As to the question of expansion of material under the influence of tire, it must become a subject of trial and con trivance on the part of the worker who would seek to make a fortune as well as to acquire a grateful place in the minds of millions he would benefit. Mount Washington in Winter. Prof. Huntington writes to tho Boston Journal : One who has viewed the grand pano rama that is spread out before the be holder, who stands on the summit of Mount Washington, only through the haze of a summer day. can hardly ima gine the gYandeur of tho sceue as it ap pears on a clear day in winter. Would you not like to see it? Then go with ine, for to-day it is so mild and pleasant that we cannot stay within doors. The sun shines brightly alove, the sky is intensely blue, and in the zenith deep ens even into purple. Such a sky is seen only at high altitudes. The at mosphere to-day must bo free from all impurities. We will stand on the very highest point of the mountain no, this will not do, we cannot see westward. On the Tip Top House the view is bet ter, but the roof is steep ; can we walk up? Certainly, for the frost adheres to the roof so that we have a secure foot ing. Now we can go no higher, but this is all we could wish. To-day, so clear and transparent is the atmosphere that space seems half annihilated. Instead of one vast mantle of white, as we might have expected, the variety of colors is greater even than in summer ; and the shadows could any artist desire any thing more grand ? To follow round the whole horizon and study the scene that is spread out before us would take several days. One feature more of the scene that is par ticularly striking we will notice here, namely : the shadows as they, fall aslant the sides of the mountains or across the deep valleys. On account of the snow and the transparency of the atmosphere, not to say anything of the lengthened shadows of winter, they are much more noticeable than in summer. On Monroe, Franklin and Pleasant there is the same beautiful rose tint just over the border : and the dark shadows of the mountains, as they fall on the snow, where the light streams through the deep ravines, and as the sun climbs higher we watch the shadows until Hie sunlight flashes down- the sides of the mountains. in tne aiternoon it is grand to watch the shadow of Mount Washington as it falls into the deep gorge westward, climbs the snow-clad summit of Mount Moriah, falls into the valley of the Androscoggin and then climbs the heights beyond. Now we think to lose it, but it lingers yet, for it mounts high upon the hazy atmosphere and then gradually fades away as the sun sinks beneath the western horizon. THE "FROST WORK." The " frost work" is one of the most remarkable phenomenon of this high altitude. As few have ever seen it, and none have attempted to describe it, and as the causes that produce it are but imperfectly understood, we shall, perhaps, be pardoned if we present some rather crude ideas in regard to it. It is difficult also to convey in words any idea of its wonderful form and beauty. From the study given to it last winter, and the opKrtuiiities we have had of observing its formation, we are aole to give what seema to us a plausible, if not a correct theory to account for this, the most plastic of idl the handiwork of nature. At our very first observation we see that it forms only when the wind is northward, i. e.,. at some point between X. and W. or N. and E., and never when the wind is southward. It begins with mere prtints on everything that, the wind reaches, on the rocks, on the snow, on the rail way, and on every part of the buildings, even on the glass. On the south side it is very slight, as the wind reaches there only in eddying gusts. When tho sur face is rough, the points, as they begin, are an inch or more apart: when smooth it almost entirely covers the surface at the very beginning, but soon only a few points elongate, so. on what ever suriace it oegms to lorm ii nus very j soon the same general appearance, pre senting everywhere the beautiful, feathery -liks forms. In going up the mountain we do not see it until we get some distance above the limit of the trees; it is nearly a mile, before it is seen in its characteristic forms, and it is only immediately about the summit that it presents its most attractive features. Wc notice also that it always forms toward the wind never from ft and the rapidity with which it forms and the great length of the horizontal masses is truly wonderful. We placed a round stick an inch in diameter in a vertical position, where it wa.- exposed to the full force of the wind, and in less than two days some of the horizontal icicles we call them icicles for the want of a more appropriate name were two feet in length and scarcely any thicker than the stick itself. They fornied on every part of the stick that was exposed, but of course some points were much longer than others. They remained several days, but with a change of wind they were blown off. On some of the piles of stones south of the house, these horizontal masses are now more than five feet in length. On the southern exposure:-, instead of the "frost work." there are only mas-is of pure. ice. which have always a peculiar hue of greenish blue. In the early part of December, when she thermometer ranged from twenty-five to twenty-nine degrees and the wind was southward, the ice formed to the thickness of a foot or more on the telegraph-poles near the lrotise. These icy masses are formed evidently by the condensation of the vapor of the. atmosphere, as it is not un common for it to be above the oiiit of saturation. The "frost work'" i- aba formed by the condens 'tion of vapor, but besides the vajior the air must lie filled with minute specula, of ice. As the vapor condenses they are caught, and thus the horizontal feathery masses are formed. This accounts for the facts that we have observed, namely, that it forms when the wind is northward and always toward the wind. The following is the .summary of the meteorological observation by Ser geant Theodore Smith, of tho Signal Service : The hia-tiest temperature liae been The low.-st - ........... fMvitiff h mean of The hlKht-Ht ltarometer Tlie loa-eHt 20 ISO 11.9 M.tsn aji - M! 2S.774 torn S. W. The raean lieinit rreet-l for elevation.... The prevailing wind has a a i a We have only two calms on record, and the greatest velocity extended one hun dred miles per hour, a rate without "pre cedent in meteorological record. The observations on clouds are very limited there having been only six clear days during the month. A very remarkable phenomenon presents itself in the rapid changes in the relative humidity of the Personalities. Hon. A. II. Stephens weighs seventy four. Gov. Alcorn's message was sixty feet long. Charixitte Cubhnan has taken a rest dence at Newport, R. I. Gen. McClellan's salaries aggregate VBWrVWK The stockholders' family free list has killed Krighani Young's theatre. The Cincinnati Commercial published the oration of Ralph Waldo Emerson under the head of " Emerson's Pilgrim's i rogress. Mr. Thos. A. Carew has a bat-relief of ii . . r ...... T . . Horace Aiann on exhibition at t'hild- art 'tore in Boston. Carlotta Patti has lost greatly by spurious tickets at Rio Janeiro. Seven hundred dollars' worth were taken in one evening. Mr. W. T. Sinus, of Sumter county, Alabama, recently lost three ehilrlrnn T J " ..... in one night, by cerebrospinal menin gitis. B. K. Seaman, of Iowa Falls, offers b to any young person who will spell 250 words correctly, according to the rules oi pnonetics. Ex-Gov. A. R. Allen, of Quincv. Flor ida, has been arrested and earned to Jacksonville, charged with violating the eniorcement law. The camp table of the King of Prus sia is graced with tho curious, thin, well worn, old historical plates which the Great Frederick took to the wars with him. Father Hyacinths contemplates an other visit to the United States next au tumn, convinced that he did not see half enough of the country when he was here before. Commodore Vanderbilt's application for delay in the hearing of the dividend tax case of the New York Central Rail road before the Commissioner of Inter nal Revenue has been granted. A letter to Victor Emanuel congratu lating him on the thorough establish ment of Italian unity, signed by men prominent in mercantile, social and scholarly position, headed by Governor mnin, is soon to oc sent trom Boston. On Wednesday last, Hon. A. B. Bacon, of the editorial staff of the New Orleans Pic tyuiie, died, after a distinguished and honorable career as journalist and law yer in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. Clara Louise Kellooo testified ber good opinion of the Woman's Christian Association in Cincinnati by sending the young ladies belonging to that so ciety free tickets to the performance of the oratorio of the Messiah. Jacob Trees and Sarah Trees, of Shelby county, Iud., for fifty-nine years husbahd and wife, died within four hours of each other about two weeks ago. Both were attacked at the same time and with the same disease. James A. Rissell, father of Adjutant General Russell of Pennsylvania, died at Bedford, in that State, on the 20th ult., at the age of eighty-five years. Mr. Russell was a reputable lawyer, and had successful practice for nearly sixty years. Dr. Holmes savs " Walvino U . pet mil falling, with a per)etual self- rucovnry. nus most complex, violent and nerilouH ntwrutinn wtiitli uA ,i;....t of its extreme d inger only by continual practice nom a very early period of life-" The Atlanta Cbiutitutiou says Dr. Mc Cownn, of Jonasboro', Ga., has brought monstrosity to that city to have it preserved in alcohol. It was an infant whose far e bore a striking resemblance .. .i . . " common screecning-owl, the brains being massed in the back part of tho head. To the Missouri Historical Society has been presented a letter written by Dan iel Boone, which reads as follows : " I certify that I gave permission to Benja min Gardner to satel on a pies of vacant land coal Little Purray, on the Missury, some time in December, 1802. Given under my hand this 23d day of Fcbury, 1806. Daniel Boone." A correspondent inquires whether the iwm of Mr. Bryant entitled "Thana topaia'.' has ever leen translated into either German or Italian. It has been translated into German half a dozen times, but we are not aware that there is any printed veitrioii of it in Italian. Sergeant Robinson, who saved Secre tary Seward's life at the time of the as sassination of President Lincoln, has received a favorable report upon the petition for an appropriation of $5,000. He i unable to rio heavy labor on ac count of his wound then received. George Fish, of South Dover. Mc, aged seventy-eight years, both of whose hips are out of joint, so that he can only get about on crutches, has collected at farm houses in the surrounding country, and brought into Bangor, with one horse, the past season, 18,620 dozen eggs, which he sold for $3,927. a It I to it 1 I I The Moon's Influence on Rain. Mr. Ja mes (Glassier, F. R. S., of England, in recent lecture, said that the whole of the rain had its origin and fall 800 feet from the earth. Desiring to discover the influence of the moon on the ele ments, he found, after a long series of investigations, that on the ninth day of the moon there was much more rain than on any other day, and that on the first and last week of the moon there was the least amount. He had taken account, from I X J ii to 1869, of every day on which there had been an 'inch of rainfall, and he had found that on July 26, IK67, the rainfall amounted to three and seven-tenth inches the largest amount that had fallen in one day at the Royal Observatory. From careful olwervations made by him he hud no doubt that the moon did exer cise an influence upon rain. Another his investigations was as to the time day that rain fell most, and he had found that the largest quantity of rain fell at ai.out four o'clock in the after noon. Obi.. John H. Mokhv, of guerrilla hum-, haa been admitted to practice at the bar of the Knifed States ( ircnit Court. Rich mond. to at be Little Boy Blue. BY ABBY SAGE RICHARDSON. l'ndcr tho bar atark, lltUa-Boy Bla Sleep with his head on bis arm, While voices of men and votes of msWi Are railing him over the farm. .Sbecp in the meadows are run nine wild. Where poisonous herbaae arows. Leaving wbile tuft of downy fleeca On the thorns of the sweet wild rose. Out In the fislds where I he silksjn corn IU plumed head nods and bows. Where golden pampkins ripen below. Trample the white-faced eows. But no loud blast on the shining horn Calls back the straying sheep. And the cows may wander In bay or 0OTB While their keener liesast asleep. Mis roguish eyes are tightly shut. JJin dimples arc all at rest: The chubby hand, tucked under his bead. By one rosy ebeek is pressed. Waken him ? No. Let down the hers And gather the truant rbaep. Open the barnyard and drive In the eows. But let the httlr boy sleep. For year after year we can Bear the fleeoe. And corn can always be sown: -But the nleep that visits little Boy Blue Will not come when the years Bare flown- A Trusty Boy. A' few years ago, says a Now York paper, a large, drug firm in this city ad vertised for a boy. Next day the atora was thronged with applicants, and among them came a queer looking little fellow, accompanied by his aunt, in liau of iaitbleas parent, by whom he had been abandoned. Looking mi this little waif, tha mer chant in the store promptly said, "Can't take him , places all full ; besides be ia too small." " I know he is small," said the woman, " but he ia willing and faith ful." There waa a twinkle in the boy's eyes which mado the merchant think again. A partner in the firm voluq teered to remark that " ha did not sea what thoy wanted of such a boy ha ii i .'. tl . . .... ,.r wmii i uiggvi ill cm I a piui n mwp . But after consultation the boy waa set to work. A few days later, a call was made on the boys in the store for soma one to stay all night. The prompt response of the little fellow contrasted well with tha reluctance of the other. In the mid dle of the night, the merchant looked in to gee if all was right in the store, and presently discovered his youthful protege, busy scissoring labels. " What are you doing?" said he . "1 did not tell you to work nights." " I know yon did not tell me so, but I thought I might as well be doing something. In the morning the cashier got orders to 'double that hoy h nages, lor lie is willing." Only a few weeks elapsed before a show of wild beasts passed through the streets, and very naturally all hands in the store rushed to witness tha specta ole. A thief saw hi opportunity and entered in a rear door to seise some thing, but in a twinkling found himself firmly clutched by the diminutive clerk aforesaid, and after a struggle, was cap tured. Not only was robbery preven tea, but valuable articles taken from other stores were recovered. Whan asked by the merchant why be stayed behind to watch when all other quit their work, tho reply was, " You told me never to leave the store when others were absent, and I thought I'd stay." Order wore immediately given once more, " Doable that boy s wages : ne is willing ana faithful." In 1869, that boy waa receiv ing a salary of $2,500, and in 1870 was to become a partner in the establish ment. Manly Jack Stone. I'm Jack Stone, you know, that' aot grandpa and dog Johnnie ; but that don't make me proud. 1 want to be manly, because grandpa says boys snould be, and ne ougnt to know, he's lived so long. He say boys never ought to cry, so whan I run a splinter into my finger, 1 don't cry when T . . . i . iney try io get n ouv. I had a tooth oat, the other day. It was not tUeasant, but I didn't cry. I waa manly. It hurt. The man had a long iron in his hand, and told me to let mm see the tooth. He said I must be quiet, and it wouldn't hurt me. I told him I guessed it would. I had two out before. One a dentist took out, and tha other I pulled with a string. Dentist ought not to tell stories, because it' not right. Dr. Thomas come to see me whan I'm sick . He don't tell the truth. Ha says bis medicine ia real nice. It isn't . tastes like rustv nails. lie ougnt to to Sunday-school. 1 love nails, but not to eat. 1 ney are handy when you want to make a wagon. like wagons first rate. I mean toy wagons, that my dog Johnnie can draw. Horse wagons do very well. Home are manly. I hey don t cry when you drive nails in their foot to fasteu their shoe on. They don't seem mind it. I shouldn't like to be a horse. They can't slide, or skate, or snowball. They have to work real hard ; sometime cruel men beat thorn, and they have to stand up and go to sleep, and have only hay and oats to eat. I don't think hav is half so good to eat mi meat and pie. 1 found a nail in the mince-pie yesterday. Mother says came out of the flour-barrel. It al most broke my tooth. I was going to say a word about beina manly, but I forgot it. Some boy think it is manlv tojtmoka cigars and drink. I don't. I am never going to think so. Peter Cole is manly. He help blind men to cross the street). Sometimes the bova laugh at him. He don't care. He tolls them he known he's right, and he's going to do what's right. Ian't he manly ? 1 like to read little story papers very well. One time Johnnie got one, and gnawed it all up. 1 didn't bea, John nie. I wanted u, but lie didn't know any better, so I forgave him It isn't right to be it people or dog, when thoy don't know any better. Johnnie paved my life once. 1 fall into the water, and he jumped in and bit my clothes. wouldn't be bit my clothes He didn't bite me, but living now if he hadn't That showed how much loved me. We've been friends ever since, and if Johnnie should go dead, I should cry. should forget to be manlv then, but I would he right. Tommy Lane says it ia foolish to cry for a dog when he's dead, but I couldn't help crying for Johnnie. wonder if Tommy's (log waa to save his life, and then die, if Tommy wouldn't cry. Last Kourth of July Tommy tied some tire-crackers to his dog' tail, and then burned them. They went snap, snap ! The dog run very fast. It waa not rleaaant to see him. Tommy was cruel, untied the cracker, and then 1 got some water and put it on the dog I firandua say I was manly. Waa 17 Some boys love to stone cats, and steal birds-nests. They call it fun. They don't think it funny if they have their toys taken from them, grandma would saye KoM' Companion. Two Ways of Looking at Things. you look,'" his companion, as they were going to the well. " Ah !" replied the other, "1 waa re fleeting ii in the uselesaiiee oi our being filled ; for lot as go away ever o full, wo always come back empty." Dear mo! bow strange to look at in that way." aaid the bucket : " now I en joy the thought that however empty we conic we always go away full. Only look it in that "light, and you will be a cheerful as I am."' A PivNsrr.TAKl man accidentally dropped a pistol cartridge, into a pip was smoking. He i having tin ear built.